Re Dick and Jane: Is there really a need for pre-marriage counseling?
There are many couples that have none at all and their marriages seem strong. The purposes of the book and pre-marriage counseling itself is to prepare adults for marriage. Those adults often have no basis for their beliefs, having not thought through many of the problems that they will encounter in their own marriages. For most couples there is no great thought about children until the wife becomes pregnant and immediately their experience from their own families comes into play, the values that their parents had dominate the thinking. If those values are not similar or were stresses by divorce, stress builds up.
